ath79: rework Netgear nand devices image recipe
authorShiji Yang <yangshiji66@qq.com>
Sun, 9 Jul 2023 14:10:53 +0000 (22:10 +0800)
committerHauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
Wed, 23 Aug 2023 22:04:38 +0000 (00:04 +0200)
commit0f9b8aa3f592b22e3f1d5f7d049e92653ba0f884
tree5f76ed637269c143cdc3cd311e2e2fce4db7804b
parentf3eb998e7e646e91cc42b019dce4e347a505f3b6
ath79: rework Netgear nand devices image recipe

In Netgear u-boot GPL code, nand devices uses this formula to locate the
rootfs offset.

offset = (((128 + KERNEL_SIZE) / BLOCK_SIZE) + 1) * BLOCK_SIZE;

Howerver, WNDR4500 source code incorrectly define the nand block size to
64k. In some cases, it causes u-boot can't get the correct rootfs offset,
which result in boot failure. This patch workaround it by padding kernel
size to (128k * n - 128 - 1). The additional char '\0' is used to ensure
the (128 + KERNEL_SIZE) can't be divided by the BLOCK_SIZE.

Fixes: https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/issues/13050
Fixes: 3c1512a25d92 ("ath79: optimize the firmware recipe for Netgear NAND devices")
Tested-by: Yousaf <yousaf465@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shiji Yang <yangshiji66@qq.com>
target/linux/ath79/image/nand.mk